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First Friday

School of Art graduate students continue their tradition of bringing artists to Missoula and exhibiting their work in an alternative gallery space. Located in the ally behind the Old Post Pub, FrontierSpace Missoula welcomes Joe Meiser for June’s First Friday. Stop by between 6pm and 9pm to see work that, “… examines the limitations of the human body and mind, the impermanence of life, and ideas about mortality that come from science, philosophy, and religion—often attempting to make sense of narratives that are in conflict.”

Join our friends at MAM for an opening reception exhibiting the works of Colorado artist and professorMelanie Yazzie from 5-8pm with an artist gallery talk at 7pm. Professor Yazzie describes her work as meant to “…challenge the idea of what most see as a good, proper print. The works are made fast paced and they are about the action of making them and producing them to capture a moment and energy that is not still. You can feel a movement in these works. When I am producing an edition of work they are more controlled and printed in a very formal way. The works here are speaking about a morning walk I take and the vibration I see around. It is honoring the moment and I hope to capture the feeling of being quiet and still–the unpredictable is what I am after with this series of work.”

The exhibition is hosted in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery, a gallery dedicated to honor the creative cultural contributions of American Indian people to contemporary art, and to ensure that Indian artists will always have a place to celebrate that contribution. The artist residency is supported by MATRIX Print Workshop at the School of Art at The University of Montana.

MAM would like to thank the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation for their support of this exhibition.

The good folks of the Clay Studio are excited to host the First Friday reception of Artist in Residence Courtney Murphy from 5:30-9pm. Courtney’s functional forms in “house/hold” are influenced by simplified abstractions of nature, children’s artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as textiles, patterns and historical pots. She is simultaneously attracted to worn surfaces that show the passage of time, as well as forms that are clean and simple, elegantly utilitarian. Her careful attention to line is evident on both the surfaces of her forms and the forms themselves.

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